Rensselaer Republican, Volume 17, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 June 1885 — A Good Time Cosing! [ARTICLE]

A Good Time Cosing!

A Celebration • i In Preparation! Fire-Works, Fix*-Bangs! Games, Oratory and Lord Knows What! PRESIDENT OF THE DAY, f Hoii. E. P. BAMOiiD. viof. presidents : Messrs. Capt. J. M. Wasson, H. A. Barkley, Dr. J. Ritchey, J. Benjamin, J. M. Trussell, J. V. Parkinson, T. A. Knox, Hon. Fred Hoover, P. Foulks, Clark McColly, Hon. 6. H Brown, David Nowels. MARSHAL OF THE DAY AND MASTER OF FIELD SPORTS: =^^^r¥iwe^^fflßßve"assi3tants. The full lists of the various sub-com-mittees were handed to us too late for publication this week, but we give the names-of tlie chairmen: On Music: Mrs. A. Dunlap, On Grounds: B. F- Ferguson. ON Decoration : Miss Belle Powell.

, In Luck— Prof. P. H. Kirsch, Superintendent of the Rensselaer schools for the last two years, hag been, elected Superintendent or the Public Schools of Franklin, the county seat of Johnson county. It is a good position, and Mr. Kirsch, after investigation, has concluded to accept it. The salary is SI2OO a year, and the duties of the place are strictly supervisory, no instruction being required of him. The towD has a population of several thousand, and the whole number of teachers under Mr. Kirsch's supervision is fourteen. The Rensselaer School Board would have been glad to retain Mr. Kirsch’s services for another year, but of course, it was not to be expected that he would sacrifice so desirable a promotion as was offered him in Franklin. Prof, and Mrs. Kirsch will depart for their new place of residence Franklin, Ind., next week. It is Mrs. Kirsch’s . native town, and the home of her girlhood, and very naturally she is delighted at the prospect of leturning there to live.

Reports of a case of inhuman depravity come to us by way of Remington, concerning a former citizen of that town and liis wife, the latter once a resident of Rensselaer. The story goes that Wm, Royalty and his second wife formerly Hattie Willett, a woman whose reputation in tliis town is. still unsavory, have lately been convicted in one of the northern counties of this state, of cruel treatment of the most aggravated kind, of Elizabeth Royalty, daugln ter of Royalty by a former marriage. It is said that the inhuman wretches locked the child up alone in a dark cellar, for three days and nights, during some of the coldest weather of last winter, and that she was so badly frozen that amputated. According to the report they have both been sentenced to live years in the penitentiary for their crime. The poor little victim of this fiendish couple’s malignity is only about 12 years old, and said by those who know her to be a very bright and intelligent child.. Her deceased mother was sister to the wife of Wm. Smith, the carpenter, of this place; and Mr. Smith has made heretofore, strenuous but unavailing efforts to rescue his neice from the clutches of the creatures, wh o ..have at last blighted lrer life by their wickedness.